Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-05-18
MINING PROGRESS.
Good Prospects IN the New Camp
At Libby.

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Good Prospects IN the New Camp
At Libby.
Advices from Libby creek, Misse,ula
county, state that the recent rains had
caused the SNOW on the summit between
Vermillion creek and Libby to become
very soft. causing much trouble to these
who had to pack their supplies on their
backs over this route. A town has be en-
laid out three miles below the falls and
several cabins are in course of erection.
Good prospects nave been found on the
high bars where it was thought no pay
would be found. About eighty men are
in the camp and are busy preparing for
the summers work.
A f INVENTION.
Mr.. Dennis Ryan has struck another
mine in the shape of q patent ore reducer,
which promises to revolutionize the pres
ent slow and clumsy methods of bringing
ore to powder. The machine, the st. Paul
Pioneer Press says, produces opposite cur
rents of air of a cyclonie nature, which
dash the pieces of ore against each other
with such violence and create such fric-
ton that the ore is rapidly reduced to the
smallest particles. A key of nails, for in
stance, fed into the machine m out in
a short time a powder as fine as flour. A
western miner brought the invention to
Mr.. Ryan's notice, who at one realized
its value and induced Erastus Wyman, of
of r. G. Dunn & Co. New York City to
take hold of it with him. They bought
the right to manufacture the machine for
$4,000 and now have it perfected and
ready for sale. 1t is expected that the
profits from this investment will induce
Mr.. Ryan to build another big hotel for
st. Paul-something that will be needed
within five years if she keeps on growing
at the rate she is making now.
RUBY SILVER ABUNDANT.
The Missoula county bonanzas are CON-
ing to the front in public notice. Among
the facts found by an Inter Mountain
correspondent are the following:
The Curlew and Elizabeth locations,
lying Just south of Big creek, are marvels
even in a territory prolific of surprises.
The eastern end of the properties borders
upon an apple orchard upon the ranch of
John Buker, and the hill itself, which is a
mass of mineral, would make a fine farm.
The locations run from the discovery
south westerly 1900 feet and take in the
entire hill. E. L. Hackett, one of the
owners, resides at the mines, which are
only a few hundred feet from his resi-
dence. He is working eight or nine men
on the Curlew, stopping and taking out
plenty of ore going way up in the hum
dreds. They have q chimney in the tun-
mel about sixty feet long and nearly as
wide as the tunnel carrying ruby silver,
which has made this location famous,
and which they will shortly pro-
coed. to develop. They have a magnificent
property, and a pick struck in the ground
anywhere in the Curlew lines will turn up
ore, and good ore at that. The Elizabeth,
which joins the Curlew or the west, is a
peculiar looking prospect. A chimney, or
blowout, at discovery shows nearly all
kinds of mineral, lead, copper and silver,
and no one knows as yet how large it is.
The owners have more faith in this pros
pect than in the Curlew although ithas not
been developed. John B. Catlin and HI.
C. Myers uncovered a lead carrying galena
that prospects away up, samples from the
top going 400 ounces. They put some
men at work on that prospect this morn
ing.
The Pleasant View, Badger, Victor, and
Bitter Root Prince mines show greater
development than any other in the valley,
the Pleasant View having a shaft 1875 feet
deep and levels connecting it with the
Badger and Victor. The Bitter Root
Prince is opened by a 200-foot tunnel.
These properties are all looking we'll and
only need cheap transportation for ores to
bring them to the front in great shape.
S~tevensville has taken a new lease of life,
and mines and the prospects of an early
railroad connection have awakened up her
unusually conservative citizens.